Johann Ferdinand Jansen

Johann Ferdinand Jansen (* 1758 in Weisweiler ; † January 6, 1834 in Aachen ) was a German painter and local poet . His activity included history and landscape painting .

Life

The son of the painter Heinrich Jansen first attended elementary school in Weisweiler near Düren . A few years later the family moved to Aachen, where he attended the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium . Characterized by his father and his friendship with Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte , painting also became a profession for Ferdinand. According to the custom of the time, Jansen decorated entire rooms with landscapes. Around 1782/83 he married Theresia Pickenkamp from Aachen († around 1807/8).

In addition to his painting, Jansen increasingly occupied himself with the Aachen dialect, the ( Öcher Platt ), and translated it into writing. Since he was not a native of Aachen, his literary works are useless for dialect research and comparative literature . In addition, for many years he was honorary church master at the St. Nicholas Church in Aachen .

His gouache painting Prospect d'Aix la Chapelle, du Côté de Borcette from 1796 illustrates the marching gate . It is questionable whether the two parallel walls in front of the gouache picture are parts of the outer bailey , which were only discovered on May 11, 2011 during road works, equivalent to the bridge defense corridor of the Ponttor . Jansen probably shifted them topographically to reflect their existence.

Works

Promenade in Burtscheid around 1796

1796: four views of Aachen and Burtscheid in gouache
1824/25: Renovation of the Bernardinic ceiling paintings (1730ff) in the octagon of Aachen Cathedral
1824/25: Inauguration of the minster by Pope Leo III. in 805 , west vault above the coronation chair
1824/25: Self-portrait in the lower corner of the dedication painting

The last three works were destroyed in 1870/75.

1824/25: Drawings of the ceiling paintings

literature

Johannes Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century . In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Volume 10, No. 4/8, 1897, pp. 53–92 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Johannes Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century . In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Volume 10, No. 4/8, 1897, p. 55.
↑ In 1994 this work of art was in the Frankenberg Castle Museum, inv. BK 849. A picture can be found in: Thomas F. Kraus: On the way to modernity. Bonne ville d'Aix-la-Chapelle. Aachen in French times - 1792/93, 1794–1814. Handbook catalog for the exhibition in the coronation hall of the Aachen town hall from January 14th to March 5th, 1995 (= supplement to the magazine of the Aachener Geschichtsverein . Vol. 4). Published by Herbert Lepper , Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1994, ISBN 978-3-9802705-1-9 , p. 588 on behalf of the Scientific Committee .

personal data
SURNAME	Jansen, Johann Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history and landscape painter as well as local poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1758
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weisweiler
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1834
Place of death	Aachen

[Fey-1] A ^b Johannes Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century . In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Volume 10, No. 4/8, 1897, p. 55.

[2] In 1994 this work of art was in the Frankenberg Castle Museum, inv. BK 849. A picture can be found in: Thomas F. Kraus: On the way to modernity. Bonne ville d'Aix-la-Chapelle. Aachen in French times - 1792/93, 1794–1814. Handbook catalog for the exhibition in the coronation hall of the Aachen town hall from January 14th to March 5th, 1995 (= supplement to the magazine of the Aachener Geschichtsverein . Vol. 4). Published by Herbert Lepper , Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1994, ISBN 978-3-9802705-1-9 , p. 588 on behalf of the Scientific Committee .